Summary
Stefan is an enrolled Barrister & Solicitor of the New Zealand High Court and Ph.D candidate in Legal Studies, International and European Law at Bocconi University Milan.
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Stefan has a range of experience advising on international law and policy. In 2024 he was awarded the Diploma of the Hague Academy of International Law.
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Stefan Robert McClean
Ph.D Candidate in Legal Studies
International & European Law
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Università Bocconi
Via Roentgen 1
20136 Milan, Italy
EXPERIENCE
May 2024 - September 2024
​Nimmo-Bell & Associates
Consultant
April 2023 - July 2023
Legal Internship
United Nations Secretariat
Office of Legal Affairs - International Trade Law Division (UNCITRAL) - Vienna
October 2022 - March 2023
Legal Clerkship
International Criminal Court
Pre-Trial Chamber - The Hague
EDUCATION
2023 - 2026
Bocconi University
Ph.D. in Legal Studies
Public International Law
2024 - 2025
Visiting Postgraduate
University of Cambridge
Wolfson College
2021 - 2022
LL.M. with magna cum laude
KU Leuven
2016 - 2021
Victoria University of Wellington
LL.B. & B.A.
SKILLS
Public International Law
Legal Research
​Advice & Advocacy
English - Mother Tongue
French - Elementary
German - Limited Professional
EXPERTISE
Public International Law
Stefan's expertise lies accross public international law, including the law of treaties, state responsibility, immunities, international dispute settlement, humanitarian law & international environmental law
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Stefan has provided consultancy services for governments during the design-phase of international projects
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List of Publications
From Theory to Reality: A Definition for the Termination of Non-International Armed Conflicts (2023) Volume 28, Issue 3 Journal of Conflict and Security Law Oxford University Press
International Watercourse Law and the Principle of Cooperation: Customary International Law and the Creation of River Basin Organisations’ (2021) Volume 19
New Zealand Journal of Public and International Law 57-96
The Laws of New Zealand: International Law second reissue, contributing editor with Professor Alberto Costi, LexisNexis (forthcoming)